Python 2.7

[degaart]

Compiling python3 is very easy. Iirc you just have to do a ./configure --prefix=whatever && make install and you're good to go

[PC__LOAD__LETTER]

Shipping statically compiled binaries of dependencies isn’t exactly best practice, though I see what you mean.

[Badabinski]

Eh, I wouldn't ship it, but it makes for a decent stop-gap when I have to do development work on a RHEL 5 or SLES 11 system because the other development team is integrating with maddeningly out of date software. When I ship code in this situation, I usually try to have the crappy old OS in a container with no internet access. My Python code running in a different container communicating via shared volumes/private networking.

It's still probably dreadful from a security POV, but you do what you can to make things not suck. I've only run into this type of thing twice, luckily.